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Three times this week scientists veered purposely into religious topics, at their own peril.
1. The researcher who suggested Jesus could have walked on ice instead of water has been getting tons of hate email, as in three per minute. Mind you, Doron Nof didn?t say Jesus walked on ice, he just determined that it would have been possible for ice to have formed on the Sea of Galilee at that time, and somebody could have walked on it and possibly appeared to have been walking on water under the right conditions.
2. Remember the Science Guy, Bill Nye? He was speaking at a community college to enthusiastic fans when he mentioned Genesis 1:16:
God made two great lights ? the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
Nye pointed out?and I think he?s got this right?that the Sun is in fact just a star and that the Moon isn?t really a light but rather an object that reflects light. Some folks walked out angry, with one woman exclaiming, ?We believe in a God!?
3. Daniel Hall, an Episcopal priest and resident in general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, released his findings that people who attend religious services on a regular basis live a couple years longer. Hall went on to speculate (based on theology and not science, he said) that the results might owe to the possibility that humans are wired for a relationship with God and suffer when not properly connected.
Far as I know, there?s been no outcry to #3.
Three times this week scientists veered purposely into religious topics, at their own peril.
1. The researcher who suggested Jesus could have walked on ice instead of water has been getting tons of hate email, as in three per minute. Mind you, Doron Nof didn?t say Jesus walked on ice, he just determined that it would have been possible for ice to have formed on the Sea of Galilee at that time, and somebody could have walked on it and possibly appeared to have been walking on water under the right conditions.
2. Remember the Science Guy, Bill Nye? He was speaking at a community college to enthusiastic fans when he mentioned Genesis 1:16:
God made two great lights ? the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
Nye pointed out?and I think he?s got this right?that the Sun is in fact just a star and that the Moon isn?t really a light but rather an object that reflects light. Some folks walked out angry, with one woman exclaiming, ?We believe in a God!?
3. Daniel Hall, an Episcopal priest and resident in general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, released his findings that people who attend religious services on a regular basis live a couple years longer. Hall went on to speculate (based on theology and not science, he said) that the results might owe to the possibility that humans are wired for a relationship with God and suffer when not properly connected.
Far as I know, there?s been no outcry to #3.
